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US20050083459A1 US10/492,119 US49211904A US2005083459A1 US 20050083459 A1 US20050083459 A1 US 20050083459A1 US 49211904 A US49211904 A US 49211904A US 2005083459 A1 US2005083459 A1 US 2005083459A1
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  • the present invention relates to a pixel electrode having reflective and transmissive areas.
  • the present invention also relates to a pixel electrode used in a transflective liquid crystal display device, and more particularly, to a pixel electrode suitable for an active-matrix transflective liquid crystal display device.
  • the present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device using the pixel electrode.
  • transflective liquid crystal display devices have been put into full-scale practical use.
  • an external light ray incident from a front side is subjected to optical modulation according to an image to be displayed and is reflected to be led to the front side
  • an incident light ray originated in the backlight system from a rear side is similarly subjected to optical modulation according to an image to be displayed and is transmitted to be led to the same front side.
  • This type of liquid crystal display device provides effective image display because of external light or ambient light (reflective mode) when the use environment is brighter and of emitted light (transmissive mode) from the back light system when the use environment is dark.
  • each pixel electrode is divided into a reflective area and a transmissive area.
  • the reflective area is apportioned a reflective electrode portion of aluminium covering an acrylic resin with an uneven surface
  • the transmissive area is apportioned a transmissive electrode portion of ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) with a flat surface.
  • the transmissive area is provided at the center of a rectangular pixel area and has a shape of rectangle substantially similar to the shape of the pixel area, whereas the reflective area is a part in the pixel area other than the rectangular transmissive area and has a shape of surrounding the transmissive area.
  • Such pixel configuration etc. have aimed to improve legibility.
  • the present invention is carried out in view of the foregoing, and its object is to provide a pixel electrode and a liquid crystal display device using it, which can reduce improper reflected light.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a pixel electrode and a liquid crystal display device using it, which can reduce improper reflected light and thereby contribute to improvements in contrast ratio or display quality.
  • a pixel electrode of one aspect of the present invention is a pixel electrode for applying a voltage for each pixel, comprising: a reflective area portion for reflecting a light ray from a display face side in such a manner that the light ray is along a predetermined bidirectional optical path within a pixel; a transmissive area portion for transmitting a light ray from a rear side to the display face side in such a manner that the light ray is along a predetermined unidirectional optical path within the pixel; and a transition area portion being formed between the reflective area portion and the transmissive area portion and including a portion in which the reflective area portion and the transmissive area portion are coupled, wherein the transition area portion is extended with an at least partly rounded shape on a plan view.
  • the transition area portion with a shape according to this aspect is smaller than a conventional transition area portion with a rectangular shape (i.e., shape without roundness). In this way, it is possible to suppress improper reflected light possibly occurring in the transition area portion, and to contribute to improvements in contrast ratio or display quality. From a different point of view, the decrease of the transition area portion enables to use the larger (wider) reflective and transmissive areas of a pixel electrode within the pixel. Therefore, with structural elements kept unchanged except the transition area portion, it is possible to exhibit the full effect of display in each of the reflective mode and the transmissive mode.
  • This aspect may be characterized in that the transition area portion has a circular ring shape of surrounding the transmissive area portion on a plan view.
  • the aspect may bc characterized in that the transition area portion has a shape that is along an outline of an ellipse surrounding the transmissive area portion on a plan view.
  • a pixel electrode of another aspect of the present invention is a pixel electrode for applying a voltage for each pixel, comprising: a reflective area portion for reflecting a light ray from a display face side in such a manner that the light ray is along a predetermined bidirectional optical path within a pixel; a transmissive area portion for transmitting a light ray from a rear side to the display face side in such a manner that the light ray is along a predetermined unidirectional optical path within the pixel; and a transition area portion being formed between the reflective area portion and the transmissive area portion and including a portion in which the reflective area portion and the transmissive area portion are coupled, wherein the transition area portion is extended with a shape that is along an outline of substantially a polygon formed by five or more line segments on a plan view.
  • transition area portion in a shape, instead of a shape that is simply along an outline of a rectangle, which is along an outline of a polygon with large interior angles or is along a curve with a large radius of curvature on a plan view provides an advantage to manufacture, in particular, to etching process that a desired pattern of the portions can be accurately formed.
  • the transmissive portion area may be formed with an island shape, substantially at a center of the pixel area on a plan view.
  • aspects may be characterized in that a main surface of the reflective area portion and a main surface of the transmissive area portion are different in height by a predetermined height.
  • the aspects may be characterized in that the electrode comprises: a step forming layer supported by a base layer, wherein a recess portion is formed for a pixel, the recess portion having an opening corresponding to the transmissive area portion and a wall face of a predetermined height; a transmissive electrically-conductive layer supported by the base layer, at least a part of which is formed within the opening; and a reflective electrically-conductive layer extending over a top face and the wall face of the step forming layer, which is in contact with the transmissive electrically-conductive layer, wherein the transmissive area portion substantially corresponds to an exposed surface of the transmissive electrically-conductive layer, the reflective area portion substantially corresponds to a portion of the reflective electrically-conductive layer, which extends over a top face of the step forming layer, and the transition area portion substantially corresponds to a portion of the reflective electrically-conductive layer, which extends over a wall face of the step forming layer and to a portion of the reflective electrically-conductive layer, which is
  • This may be characterized in that a surface of the step forming layer and/or a surface of the reflective electrically-conductive layer are/is roughened. Such roughness can offer good characteristics of optical diffusion by being combined with a generally rounded shape of the transition area portion according to the present invention, and in particular can achieve more uniform diffusion within a pixel.
  • a further aspect of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device using a pixel electrode according to each of the above-mentioned aspects and their preferable embodiments.
  • the display device comprises: two opposed substrates between which a liquid crystal medium is sandwitched; driving elements provided on one of the substrates in correspondence with pixels arranged substantially in matrix, for driving the pixels individually, and a common electrode provided on the other of the substrates, wherein the pixel electrodes are individually connected to outputs of the driving elements.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of a pixel electrode used in a liquid crystal display device according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the pixel electrode in FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view of a pixel electrode according to the first modification in the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic plan view of a pixel electrode according to the second modification in the present invention.
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic plan view of a pixel electrode according to the third modification in the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a schematic plan view of a pixel electrode according to the fourth modification in the present invention.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic plan view of a pixel electrode used in a half transmissive reflection type (transflective) liquid crystal display device according to one embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a cross-sectional construction of the pixel electrode.
  • Pixel electrodes 1 are provided on a rear side substrate assembly 100 opposed to a display screen of this display device, and are arranged in matrix in the entire display area.
  • the substrate assembly 100 is composed of a transparent substrate 10 made of glass or the like as a base, and on or above the substrate 10 are provided source bus lines 20 and a gate insulator film 30 that crosses the lines 20 and is laminated on the lines 20 . While other needed layers and/or films are formed on the substrate 10 , descriptions thereof should be referred to well-known documents and are omitted herein for the purpose of simplifying the descriptions.
  • the pixel electrode 1 has a reflective area portion 1 r (a part of pixel electrode other than a circular portion in FIG. 1 ) for reflecting a light ray L 1 from a display screen side in such a manner that the light ray is along a specified bidirectional optical path within a pixel area, and a transmissive area portion 1 t for transmitting a light ray from a rear side to the display screen side in such a manner that the light ray is along a specified unidirectional optical path within the pixel area.
  • a reflective area portion 1 r (a part of pixel electrode other than a circular portion in FIG. 1 ) for reflecting a light ray L 1 from a display screen side in such a manner that the light ray is along a specified bidirectional optical path within a pixel area
  • a transmissive area portion 1 t for transmitting a light ray from a rear side to the display screen side in such a manner that the light ray is along a specified unidirectional optical path within the pixel area.
  • the pixel electrode 1 further has a transition area portion 1 TR being formed between the reflective area portion 1 r and the transmissive area portion 1 t and including a portion ( 4 c ) in which the reflective area portion and the transmissive area portion are coupled with each other. More specifically, the pixel electrode 1 is comprised of a transmissive electrically-conductive layer 2 , a step-forming layer 3 and a reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 .
  • the transmissive conductive layer 2 is made of an optically-transparent and electrically-conductive material such as ITO (Indium Tin Oxide), and in this embodiment, is formed on the gate insulator film 30 in the shape of an island at the center of the pixel area.
  • the step-forming layer 3 is made of an electrically-insulating material such as an acrylic resin, and is supported by the substrate 10 and surrounds the transmissive conductive layer 2 . It also takes the form of a step of a predetermined level different from a level of the transmissive conductive layer 2 , described later. In this case the transmissive conductive layer 2 is accommodated in an opening of the step-forming layer 3 , but it is not restrictive. The transmissive conductive layer 2 may extend beyond the opening.
  • the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 is made of an optically-reflective and electrically-conductive material such as aluminum, and extends over a top face and wall face of the step-forming layer 3 to cover substantially the whole of the surface of the layer 3 while making contact with the transmissive conductive layer 2 .
  • the reflective conductive layer 4 thus takes the form of outer outline of the pixel electrode 1 .
  • the transmissive area portion 1 t substantially corresponds to an exposed surface of the transmissive conductive layer 2
  • the reflective area portion 1 r substantially corresponds to a portion of the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 , which extends over the top face of the step-forming layer 3
  • the transition area portion 1 TR substantially corresponds to a portion of the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 , which extends over the wall face of the step-forming layer 3 and to a portion of the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 , which is in contact with the transmissive conductive layer 2 .
  • the top face of the step-forming layer 3 is roughened, the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 is directly deposited on the roughened surface, and thereby a main reflective surface of the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 is made uneven.
  • Such an uneven reflective surface provides an effect of properly scattering the reflected light in the reflective mode. It should be noted that unevenness of the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 and step-forming layer 3 shown in FIG. 2 is schematically depicted.
  • a front side substrate assembly 300 is provided opposed to the substrate assembly 100 , and a liquid crystal medium LC is encapsulated between the substrate assemblies.
  • the substrate assembly 300 has: a transparent substrate 50 as a base; a color filter 60 having coloring portions to correspond to and be assigned to respective pixels and having a black matrix 6 B provided between the coloring portions; and a common electrode 70 made of, for example, ITO, extending over the entire display area.
  • Other elements of the substrate assembly 300 should be referred to well-known documents in respect of the detail.
  • the pixel electrode 1 is opposed to the common electrode 70 , and the liquid crystal medium LC is locally applied with an electric field in accordance with a difference between a voltage applied to the common electrode 70 and a voltage applied to the pixel electrode l.
  • the liquid crystal medium LC has the orientation of liquid crystal molecules for each pixel on the basis of this situation, and modulates the light entering the pixel electrode.
  • the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 reflects the external light L 1 from the display face side (or frontal light from the front light system not shown) on its top face and returns the light to the display face side (reflective mode). Meanwhile, in the same action of modulation, the transmissive conductive layer 2 causes rear light L 2 from the back light system (not shown) to be transmitted through the layer 2 , and leads the light L 2 to the display face side (transmissive mode).
  • an average thickness of the step-forming layer 3 is the same as a length of a gap (so-called cell gap) between the substrate assemblies, and an average height of the top face of the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 is greater than a height of the surface of the transmissive conductive layer 2 by a predetermined length, so that lengths of the optical paths of the incident light L 1 and L 2 are the same as each other.
  • the incident light L 1 is reflected by the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 and is passed through the liquid crystal medium LC twice
  • the incident light L 2 is passed through the liquid crystal medium LC only once.
  • the light L 2 is provided with an optical path corresponding to one passage through the liquid crystal medium LC, of which the light L 2 is short with respect to the light L 1 , so that the light L 1 and L 2 have substantially the equal optical path.
  • the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 has an opening to expose the transmissive conductive layer 2 , and in this embodiment, the opening has the shape of a perfect circle.
  • the transition area 1 TR has a circular ring shape that is a shape extending along an outline of the circle. Using the transition area 1 TR with such a shape decreases a space or area occupied by the transition area portion.
  • the transition area portion with a rounded shape as in this embodiment requires to have smaller area and space than a conventional transition area portion with a rectangular shape (i.e., without a rounded shape). It is thereby possible to suppress improper reflected light possibly occurring in the transition area 1 TR.
  • the boundary line forms, for example, a square with side-lengths A
  • the area of a portion defined by the boundary line is A 2
  • the total length of the boundary line is 4A.
  • the total length of a circular boundary line of the transition area portion 1 TR in this embodiment with the same area is 2 a A+ ⁇ square root ⁇ . Accordingly, when the area of the transition area portion is the same, the length of a boundary portion of the transition area portion in this embodiment is shorter than that of a boundary portion of the transition area portion in the shape of a square by a ratio of ⁇ square root ⁇ /2, and the space and area required for the transition area portion decrease by a degree according to the shortness.
  • the reflective electrically-conductive layer 4 has a slope along the wall face of the step-forming layer 3 in the transition area portion 1 TR, it can not be expected that optical behaviors inherent in the reflective and transmissive modes like the behaviors of the incident light L 1 and L 2 , and the degree of the slope is not constant. Furthermore, since light L 1 ′ from the display face side is reflected in a coupling portion 4 c of the reflective conductive layer 4 and transmissive conductive layer 2 , the light L 1 ′ has an optical path different from that of the reflected light L 1 inherently required. This allows the equalization of optical paths described above to be impaired, resulting in being unable to make the expected improvements such as legibility.
  • the space or area occupied by the transition area portion is decreased as described above, it is possible to decrease improper reflected light occurring in the transition area 1 TR.
  • decreasing the transition area 1 TR increases (widens) each of the reflective area portion 1 r and transmissive area portion 1 t of the pixel electrode 1 in a pixel area, namely leads effective utilization of the portion 1 r and 1 t with minimum wastage of them, so that it is possible to perform effective operations in both reflective and transmissive modes with structural elements kept unchanged except the transition area portion.
  • the pixel electrode of this embodiment is capable of decreasing improper reflected light, thereby improves the display contrast ratio in the liquid crystal display device, and contributes to improvements in display quality.
  • the above embodiment is intended to make the transition area portion 1 TR having the shape of an annular ring, but the portion may have other shapes.
  • a transition area portion 1 TR′ has an annular ring shape that is along an outline of an ellipse, surrounding the transmissive area portion 1 t ′ on a plan view.
  • the transmissive area portion 1 t ′ necessarily has the shape of an ellipse. Also in this modification, the advantages as described above are obtained.
  • a transition area portion 1 TR′′ has a shape that is along an outline of an octagon, surrounding the transmissive area portion 1 t ′′.
  • the transmissive area portion 1 t ′′ is naturally in the shape of an octagon similar to the shape of the portion 1 TR′′. It is important that advantages inherent in the present invention can be obtained by any transition area portion with a shape along an outline of a polygon having more sides than a rectangle. FIG. 4 merely shows one example of it.
  • FIG. 5 shows a modification where a transition area portion has a shape of a generally rectangle with rounded corners. Also in this modification, the advantages can be obtained to some extent as compared with the conventional technique in which each corner is formed to have a sharp angle. The present invention does not exclude such a modification.
  • FIG. 6 shows another modification where a transition area portion 1 TR′′′′ has partly rounded portions on a plan view.
  • the present invention is not limited to such cases, and is basically applicable to cases of a pixel having a plurality of transmissive area portions.
  • the present invention is not limited to such cases, and is applicable to cases of no difference in height.
  • the present invention is widely applicable to pixel electrodes having a transition area portion which is formed between a reflective and transmissive area portions and which includes a portion where the area portions are coupled, independently of structures and constitutions of the reflective and transmissive area portions.
  • the present invention is capable of being carried into practice in various other modifications.
  • the present invention is not limited to an active matrix type, and is capable of being implemented in a passive matrix type.

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